Adjustable guard for stanchion-supporting frames



E. A. ROESELER.

ADJUSTABLE GUARD FOR STANCHION SUPPORTING FRAMES. APPLlCATION FILED NOV. 5. 1919.

1,380,500. Patented June 7, 1921.

i a citizen of the United States,

PTE FEE.

EMIL A. ROESELER, OF .TUNEAU, WISCONSIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June *7, 1921.

Application filed November 5. 1919. Serial No. 335,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL A. Ronsnnnn, residing at Juneau, county of Dodge, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Guards for stanchion-Supporting Frames, of which the between such posts,

following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable guards for stanchion supporting frames.

The object of my invention is to provide an adequately supported and effective adjustable guard for the spaces between the permanently mounted posts of a stanchion supporting frame and the stanchions located whereby the guards may be properly positioned to suit the requirements of stalls of differing widths or stanchions of differing widths, and whereby such guards may be held rigidly in their adjusted positions against any pressure which the animals may exert thereon. further object of my invention is to provide a form of adjustable guard which may be easily and quickly adjusted and re-adjusted as occasion may require, and which can be manufactured at small cost while possessing great strength and durability.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is an elevation of a stanchion supporting frame and stanchion with my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view drawn generally on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view drawn on line 3-3 of Fig.1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view drawn on line 44 of Fig. 2.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

1 and 2 are permanently mounted posts of a stanchion supporting frame, these posts being connected at their upper ends by a horizontally extending rod or bar 3 with which the stanchions 4 are connected at their up er ends, their lower ends being eonnecte with the floor beam or sill 6. These parts may be of any ordinary construction.

My improved guard bars 8 preferably extend vertically into spaces between the posts 1 and 2 and the respective stanchions. Their upper ends are provided with a set of clamping members 9 and 10 which are formed to embrace the horizontal rod or bar 3 and to also embrace the upper ends of the guards 8 with clamping pressure developed by a connecting bolt 11 provided with a clamping nut 12. The shanks of these clamp- 1ng members which embrace the upper ends of the guard bars or rods 8 are of sufficient length to allow the guards to be vertically adjusted therein. The clamping members when in'position for use form a socket in which the guard may be vertically moved when the clamping nut 12 is loosened.

The lower end of each guard 8 is provided with an elbowed foot piece 15, having a shank portion .16 socketed in the guard and a shoulder at 17 upon which the guard rests. The elbowed portion of the foot piece is provided with longitudinally extending re-inforeing flanges and its lower horizontal extremity is substantially T- frame posts 1 and 2' respectively, and secured thereto by clamping set screws 23.

Each of these brackets is provided with one or more arms 24 which are preferably semi-cylindrical in form or provided with semi-cylindrical channels in their upper surfaces adapted to receive the depending flanges 18 when the foot pieces are adjusted thereto. The flanges 19 and 20 project laterally to a sufficient extent to bear upon the upper margins of the channeled arms 24 at the respective sides of the channels, and connecting bolts 25 provided with clamping nuts 26 are employed to secure the foot pieces in position on the arms 24.

Each of the arms 24 is provided with a series of holes 28 through any one of which the connecting bolt 25 may pass and which allow the foot pieces to be adjusted longitudinally of the arms 24 and secured in any one of a series of positions predetermined by the location of said holes 28.

It will be observed in Fig. 1 that the intermediate posts 1 of the stanchion frame are provided with brackets having oppositely projecting arms 24 whereas the end posts have brackets provided with only one arm 24 extending inwardly toward the adjacent stanchion. It will also be observed that by loosening the set screws 23 the collars 22 may be raised or lowered on the supporting posts, but it is not material to this invention how these collars are secured to the posts (i. e., whether they are connected therewith by clamping set screws or whether they are made in sections and clamped to the post as is the case with the connecting members at the upper ends of the guards). It will also be understood that the clamping members 9 and 10 at the upper ends of the guards will conform to the contour of the guards and of the horizontal frame bar 3, but in the construction shown, the'guards and the frame bar are composed of metal tubes in conformity with ordinary practice.

I claim 1. An adjustable guard for stanchion supporting frames having frame posts comprising a bracket rigidly connected with, and carried solely by, one of the frame posts and provided with a laterally projecting arm; and a guard bar having its upper end connected with the frame and its lower end adjustably locked to said laterally projecting arm, whereby the lower portion of the structure is unobstructed by lower cross rods and whereby said guard bar may bemoved directly outwardly or inwardly along said bracket and locked in any one of a plurality of positions of adjustment. 7

2. An adjustable guard for stanchion suportin frames com risin a bracket. con-.

' nected with one of the frame posts and provided with achannel and said guard having.

vided with a laterally projecting arm, a guard bar having its upper end connected with the frame and its lower end adjustably,

connected with said arm, said arm being proa foot piece T-shaped in cross section with nected with said arm, said arm being pro vided with a series of holes to receive a connecting bolt and said guard having an oblong foot piece provided with a bolt hole adapted to register with any one of thebolt holes in the bracket arm and a single clamping belt for connecting the foot piece to the bracket arm.

4. A guard for stanchionv supporting frames comprising the combination with a frame post and a horizontal stanchion supporting rod, of a guard rod substantially parallel to the post, a set of clamping-cinembers embracing the upperend of theguard rod and the horizontal frame. .rod, asingle clamping bolt for connecting said clamping members and applying the. clamping. pres-. sure to the guard and horizontal rod respectively, and a foot, piece connected to vthe lower end of the guard and a bracketclamped to the post and provided with; an arm in adjustable connection with the. foot piece.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. v

V EMIL A. ROESELER.

'VVitnesses':

F. W. GE HARDT, ARTHUR HEMMY. 

